Improvement in machines for manufacturing moth-traps for trees



E. RUHLMANN. Machine for Manufacturing Moth-Traps for Trees,- 8E0.v

No. 206,619. Patented July 30,1878.

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-UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFIGE.

EUGENE BUHLMANN, OF LOCKPORT, NEW YORK.

lMPROVEMENT lN MACHINES FOR MANUFACTURlNG MOTH-TRAPS FOR TREES, &c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 206,619, dated July 30, H78; application filed May 1]., 187B.

To all whom it may concern.- The object of this machine is to perforate Be it known that I, EUGENE BUHLMANN, of or incise strips of paper or similar material Lockport, in the county of Niagara and State while being passed through the machine beof New York, have invented. certain new and tween the rollers D D", and then to secure a useful Improvements on a Machine for Manuband of textile or fibrous material or cotton facturing Moth-Traps; and I do hereby debatting on one side of said paper, &c., band, clare that the following description of my said and this is accomplished in the following m aninvention, taken in connection with the acner: A strip of paper of proper width-say companying sheet of drawings, forms a full, from three to four inchesis passed between clear, and exact specification, which will enthe rollersD D", where the teeth or knives E able others skilled in the art to which it apof the former, operating; within the groovesF pertains to make and use thesame. of the latter roller, perforate or produce incis- This invention has general reference to maions in said band, as shown at f, Fig. 2. Upon chinery for producing a new and improved arthe spool J is wound a strip of textile or ticle of manufacture-a cotling-moth trap; fibrous material or cotton batting,L,the latter and it consists in the peculiar arrangements being preferred, and the end thereof, being of parts and details of construction, as hereinpassed beneath the guide-rod K, is entered on after first fully set forth and described, and the top side of the strip N, between the rollthen pointed out in the claims. ers D D. This strip of textile or similar In the drawings, hereinbefore mentioned, fabric is preferably left somewhat narrower Figure 1 is a front elevation, parts being than the paper strip, as indicated in Fig. 2 in broken away and others in section, to illusdotted lines, and when passing between the trate the general arrangement of my machine. rollers D D the projecting teeth on the for- Fig. 2 is a plan, and Fig. 3 an edge view, of mer force the said textile or fibrous material the band, and Fig. 4 a plan of one of the rollthrough the incisions f, causing it to somewhat project on the under side of the paper strip. In this manner the two bands are temporarily secured together, and are then permanently attached by means of painting the under side of the paper strip N by any waterproof paint, either by hand or by means of the roller 0, having on its periphery an absorbent strip of material, such as cotton ticking, &c., or being otherwise arranged to deliver the paint contained in the tron gh It to said bandN. The object of the bands thus produced by Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A are two standards, placed a suitable distance apart, and provided with bearings D for the shafts G, carrying the rollers D, D, D, J, and 0, respectively. The rollers D D are each provided with a series of knife-shaped projections, E, arranged in three rows, the center one being placed about midway between the outer ones. The lower roller, D, has three grooves, 1*, matching the three rows my machine is to serve as a protection to trees of knives E on the rollers D D. These three from the moth commonly called cotlingrollers are so disposed within the standards moth or apple-worm, which, as is well known, that the projections E in the upper rollers enclimbs up the trunks of trees to form their coter the grooves in the lower one, and they are coons, seeking a dark .nd soft place for this connected together by means of gear-wheels purpose. A band of proper length, of the de- G G G,respectivcly, and revolved by means scription heretofore given, is saturated on the of a crank or similar device, H, as shown in cotton-batting side with any strongly poison- Fig. 4. The standards have aprojecting part, ous substance,corrosive sublimatehavinbeen 3', provided with a slotted aperture, 1), within found by me to be excellent, it being colorless which revolves the spool or roller J. Upon and odorless, and th en wound around the the base for the standards A is secured a retrunk of the tree with the cotton batting ceptaclc or trough, It, within which revolves toward the bark, and fastened, in any suitable a roller, 0, driven from the gear-wheel (i' by inainier, by means of tacks S or other contriv- The moth, when ascending the trunk,

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reaches the cottoueovered band and settles :3. As an improved article of manufacture, thcr in, but, beingduring this time under the compound bands ofpaper or similar material influenceofthcpoison,isspeedilykilled. I have and textile or fibrous fabric, the latter being found by practical experiments that the moth saturated with apoisonous substance, as stated.

will never pass the band when properly ap- J. The compound band hereinbefore deplied, which thus forms a sure and safe means scribed, consisting of a layer of paper and a of exterminatin g this moth. layer of cotton batting or analogous materlals,

For the paper band I prefer to use resinthe two layers being secured together by persized paper, owing to its water-proof qualitions of the latter being passed through incisties, which are further enhanced by the coations in the former, and fastened on the under in g of water-proof paint on the back, the side side by means of a water-proof paint, asstated. exposed to view when applied to the tree,) 4. The compound baud hereinbefore deand such a band will last for years before a scribed, consisting of a layer of paper and a renewal becomes necessary. ()ther paper or layer of cotton batting or similar materials, material may, however, be used, and answer secured togetheras specified,thebatting being the purpose more or less satisfactorily. saturated \vithapoisonous substance, as stated,

The rollers D I), with the knives E, may and the band adapted to be applied to a tree be made in anyconvenieutmanner, one methfor protection, as stated. od being to construct the knives in the man- 5. In a machine for perforating and securner ofa circular-saw plate, securing the same ing the bands, the combination of two standbetween disks interposed between the various ards, A, carrying between them the rollers I) plates. 1), provided with the projecting teeth E and For the convenience of the farmers and 0throller D, having the grooves F, and the roller ers using this band, I prefer to furnish the J, as and for the purpose stated. tacks S directly with said bands, retaining ii. The machine for perforating, attaching, them by means of leather washers s,as clearly and securing the bands, consisting of two illustrated in Fig. 3. standards, A, rollers I), l), D, J, and 0, ar

Having thus fully described my invention, ranged \ithin said standards, substantially I claim as new and desire to secure by Let- I as and for the use and purpose specified. ters Patent ofthe United States- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as As a new and improved article of manumy invention I have hereto set my hand in fuctnre, a band of paper or similar material, the presence of two subscribing witnesses. having a band of fibrous or textile fabric sev Y cured to one of its sides by portions of said LI HLMAT)" i'nbrie passing through incisions in the said Attest:

paper, t\"e., band, as and for the olgieet speei- MICHAEL J. STARK,

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